DRUM(4) DRUM(4)
NAME
drum - paging device
SYNOPSIS
This file refers to the paging device in use by the system.
This may actually be a subdevice of one of the disk drivers,
but in a system with paging spread across multiple disk
drives or interleaved will be an indirect driver.
FILES
/dev/drum
BUGS
Reads from the drum are not allowed across the interleaving
boundaries. Since these only occur every .5Mbytes or so,
and since the system never allocates blocks across the
boundary, this is usually not a problem.